Thread: best time to shoot Turkey's for the table

This has been done to death. The guide about months with an R in them comes from the US. Opposite seasons, opposite saying. I understand they ONLY take them in a month with an R in it, since Thanksgiving is in NovembeR. That would exclude May-June-July-August - the height of their summer. Someone reversed the saying for NZ, but that would mean we should only be eating them May-June-July-August. That excluded 8 months of the year, vs 4 months excluded in the US. Seems a bit extreme to me. Here (just south of Auckland), I noticed the crickets disappeared in May. I left it a few more weeks and started taking turkeys in June. Last year I didn't notice crickets emerging until late November. I was still taking turkeys in early November and they tasted fine. That makes 6 months of turkey tastiness. Makes more sense than only excluding 8 months of the year, when they only exclude 4 mothns of the year in the northern hemisphere.

The R month thing is not a hard and fast rule.


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